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relations, he has a new book called foreign policy begins at home. >> and the problems of the administration is they want to rebalance toward asia, it is in the business literature there is always a conflict or tension between the urgent and the important an there is all of this urgent stuff coming from the middle east i am not saying it is important but there is truly important strategic stuff coming in asia and north america and at home and the challenge for the president is going to be to resist meof t pullf the urgent every kay every day and focus at home and focus in asia and get the balance right, that is what strategy is about. >> rose: we conclude this evening with ali babacan, he is the depu
relations, he has a new book called foreign policy begins at home. >> and the problems of the administration is they want to rebalance toward asia, it is in the business literature there is always a conflict or tension between the urgent and the important an there is all of this urgent stuff coming from the middle east i am not saying it is important but there is truly important strategic stuff coming in asia and north america and at home and the challenge for the president is going to be...
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policy problems for the country. >> ifill: first of all how many detainees are we talking about here? >> there are currently 166 detainees remaining at guantanamo. that's down from 240 when he took office, and about 800 total whom the bush administration brought there. president obama has not brought anyone to guantanamo. >> ifill: and when you mention at the expense and the president mentioned the expense, what are we talk approximating about? >> it's more expensive to build anything there. it's more-- because it is so far away, you have to barge things in around cuba. it's more expensive to operate anything there. and currently the facilities there are sort of falling apart. the south comm which overseas gain tan to-- guantanamo has a pending request for $200 million in new construction to replace deteriorate facilities which it says needs to be done right now. this would effectively build permanent structures to replace what had been temporary guard baracks and camps and so forth set up over ten years ago. >> ifill: the president also made another claim today, assertion. he said t
policy problems for the country. >> ifill: first of all how many detainees are we talking about here? >> there are currently 166 detainees remaining at guantanamo. that's down from 240 when he took office, and about 800 total whom the bush administration brought there. president obama has not brought anyone to guantanamo. >> ifill: and when you mention at the expense and the president mentioned the expense, what are we talk approximating about? >> it's more expensive to...
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it's-- you know, that is-- that was a defining moment for this country's foreign policy. >> woodruff: and for his presidenciy? >> yeah, i think it was the poeps-9/11. iraq and afghanistan, it's hard to defend the iraq war as we see it right now. i do think preventing another terror attack, creating that apparatus, that's on the plus side of the ledger. i'm not sure it will outweigh when history judges but i do think he gets credit for that. >> the one thing i do agree with david with is mitt romney lost in 2012 in large part because he at no point did not show any empathy. by 81-18 voters on election day said barack obama cares more about people like me than mitt romney. and they could have used a large dollop of that compassionate conservatism. it will be interest to see in 2016 if anybody sounds that theme in seeking the republican nomination or seeks his endorsement. bill clt was the defining figure for the democrats in 2012. it was bill clinton's third term that barack obama won to some agree based on that speech and george w. bush was a nawb person. >> woodruff: speak of clinton,
it's-- you know, that is-- that was a defining moment for this country's foreign policy. >> woodruff: and for his presidenciy? >> yeah, i think it was the poeps-9/11. iraq and afghanistan, it's hard to defend the iraq war as we see it right now. i do think preventing another terror attack, creating that apparatus, that's on the plus side of the ledger. i'm not sure it will outweigh when history judges but i do think he gets credit for that. >> the one thing i do agree with...
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government step, in what is often seen as a domestic policy issue. we won't see any big public announcements on it. >> woodruff: do you see them, diana negroponte, standing back and watching with interest? >> they watch very closely. they follow our imgriegz debate in detail, but they do not want to interfere because they have, as a principle, a concept of sovereign, noninterference. so we should not interfere in their energy debate. >> woodruff: well let me ask you about the question of security as we mentioned in the setup piece just a few minute ago. this new president, pena nieto, changing the way the two countries will be dealing with each other when it comes to the drug war, trying to centralize where all the information goes. how much of a different does that portend to be? >> we've had a very intense, close collaboration with the mexican government over the last six years. indeed, never has there been supa close collaboration between the two neighboring governments. so there's room to disengage somewhat. a concern for us is how the new securi
government step, in what is often seen as a domestic policy issue. we won't see any big public announcements on it. >> woodruff: do you see them, diana negroponte, standing back and watching with interest? >> they watch very closely. they follow our imgriegz debate in detail, but they do not want to interfere because they have, as a principle, a concept of sovereign, noninterference. so we should not interfere in their energy debate. >> woodruff: well let me ask you about the...